Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: RFD: x32 ABI system call numbers | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Date | Sat, 03 Sep 2011 09:40:55 -0700 |
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Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 10:41:16 +0200, Arnd Bergmann said: > >(Admittedly, I'm tuning in late on this discussion, but...) > >> For the ioctl interface however, the __u64/__s64 type in the x32 ABI >> must be defined with __attribute__((packed,aligned(4))) to match what >> the kernel implements because it emulates the x86-32 ABI. > >Is this a cast-in-stone issue, or is it still not too late to change >that? >And if we change that, can we simplify anything?
The complexity of changing that would be enormous. -- Sent from my mobile phone. Please excuse my brevity and lack of formatting.
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